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Exhibition spotlighting maestro Dinko Fio on view at Omiš Klapa Singing Festival Museum by 30 Jul 2024

27 June – 30 July 2024

Material exhibited at the NSK’s and Omiš Klapa Singing Festival’s exhibition on maestro Dinko Fio.
Photo by: Vicko Vidan.

The exhibition jointly organised by the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and Klapa Singing Festival in Omiš (Festival dalmatinskih klapa Omiš) and marking the centenary of the birth of Dinko Fio, Croatia’s notable 20th-century folk song collector, composer and music educator (Daleko su moji škoji), is on view at the Omiš Klapa Singing Festival Museum by 30 July 2024.

Authored by Dobrila Zvonarek and organised with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the exhibition was previously put on at NSK, which hosted it in April and whose opening included the performances by the klapa singing ensembles founded and originally led by Fio.  

Photo by: ­­­­­­­­­Vicko Vidan.
Photo by: ­­­­­­­­­Dobrila Zvonarek.

NSK, the keeper and active promoter of Dinko Fio’s legacy

As one of the folk song collectors and music educators owing to whose dedicated work klapa singing is included on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage and a researcher who devoted his entire professional career to safeguarding and promoting Croatia’s klapa singing tradition, maestro Dinko Fio donated the autographs of his compositions and his interpretations and reworkings of Croatian folk songs to the NSK Music Collection.

Obliged by the maestro’s trust and wishing to popularise his legacy among the general public, the Library set up a special digital collection making widely available the invaluable material by and on Fio that it preserves (Digitalna zbirka maestra Fija) and created the related online exhibition (Maestro moj).

Also, in 2014, the Library launched its Fiofest programme, the last of whose so far four editions was held in 2021.

Exhibition catalogue (Croatian text only).

Director of the Klapa Singing Festival in Omiš Mijo Stanić, Croatian ethnomusicologist and music educator from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research Dr Joško Ćaleta, author of the exhibition spotlighting maestro Dinko Fio (Daleko su moji škoji) Dobrila Zvonarek and the Omiš Festival’s long-standing collaborator and klapa singing aficionado Dr Marko Rogošić. Photo by: ­­­­­­­­­Vicko Vidan.